Yan Xu

ORCID: 0000-0001-5491-6696
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Research Areas
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Platelet Disorders and Treatments
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Ionic liquids properties and applications
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Biochemical and Structural Characterization
  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Analytical Chemistry and Sensors
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Blood properties and coagulation
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication

Changchun University
2025

Central South University
2018-2024

Shandong University of Science and Technology
2019-2024

Tianjin University
2024

Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Control and Treatment of Heavy Metal Pollution
2018-2023

Hefei National Center for Physical Sciences at Nanoscale
2022-2023

University of Science and Technology of China
2022-2023

Henan University of Urban Construction
2021-2022

State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics
2022

Jilin University
2022

Microplastics (MPs) are unavoidably ingested by humans, and their gastrointestinal processes impact on lipid digestion unknown. In the present work, all five MP types used, including polystyrene (PS), polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (80 mg/L in small intestine), significantly reduced vitro system. PS MPs exhibited highest inhibition (12.7%) among MPs. Lipid decreased with increasing concentration, but independent of size (50 nm, 1...

10.1021/acs.est.0c02608 article EN Environmental Science & Technology 2020-08-14

Atomically dispersed FeN4 catalysts have been considered as potential materials to replace Pt-based for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), but they often suffer from sluggish O2 activation kinetics due symmetrical charge distribution. Herein, we introduce external N, including pyrrolic-N (PN) and graphitic-N (GN), an electron acceptor near regulate its distribution improve ORR activity. Theoretical calculations reveal that introduction of PN evokes much enhanced redistribution local...

10.1021/acscatal.0c04966 article EN ACS Catalysis 2021-05-11

Adipic acid is an important building block of polymers, and commercially produced by thermo-catalytic oxidation ketone-alcohol oil (a mixture cyclohexanol cyclohexanone). However, this process heavily relies on the use corrosive nitric while releases nitrous oxide as a potent greenhouse gas. Herein, we report electrocatalytic strategy for cyclohexanone to adipic coupled with H2 production over nickel hydroxide (Ni(OH)2) catalyst modified sodium dodecyl sulfonate (SDS). The intercalated SDS...

10.1038/s41467-022-32769-0 article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2022-08-25

Electrochemical reduction of CO2 to produce fuels and chemicals is one the most valuable approaches achieve a carbon-neutral cycle. Recently, diversity catalysts have been developed improve their intrinsic activity efficiency. However, dynamic evolution process in situ construction behavior electrocatalysts under working conditions are typically ignored. Here, we fully reveal phase transformation copper tin sulfide catalyst reconstructed by precatalyst Cu2SnS3 CuS during electrochemical...

10.1021/acscatal.2c02627 article EN ACS Catalysis 2022-08-01

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) detection technology shows great potential in alleviating the increasingly serious environmental pollution problem. The satisfactory PEC performance mainly depends on photoelectric conversion efficiency of photoelectrode material. Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has made progress field photocatalysis due to its strong light response. Interestingly, g-C3N4 also attracted many interests sensing for capability and unique superiorities, but relevant reviews are yet...

10.1021/acsestengg.1c00337 article EN ACS ES&T Engineering 2022-01-04

Abstract Electrolysis of water is regarded as an attractive and feasible way for producing hydrogen. So far, various non‐noble metal nanomaterials have been reported excellent electrocatalysts hydrogen evolution reaction. Especially, due to the low cost, earth‐abundance tunable properties, transition selenides with different compositions, sizes structures explored broadly efficient catalysts relatively high activities, stabilities efficiencies in full pH range electrolyte electrochemical...

10.1002/celc.201901623 article EN ChemElectroChem 2019-11-25

Mechanisms by which blood cells sense shear stress are poorly characterized. In platelets, glycoprotein (GP)Ib-IX receptor complex has been long suggested to be a sensor and receptor. Recently, relatively unstable mechanosensitive domain in the GPIbα subunit of GPIb-IX was identified. Here we show that binding its ligand, von Willebrand factor, under physiological induces unfolding this mechanosensory (MSD) on platelet surface. The unfolded MSD, particularly juxtamembrane 'Trigger' sequence...

10.1038/ncomms12863 article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2016-09-27

Fe-N-C catalyst is one of most promising candidates for oxygen electrocatalysis reaction in zinc-air batteries (ZABs), but achieving sustained high activity still a challenging issue. Herein, we demonstrate that introducing Mn single atoms into (Mn

10.1021/acsnano.3c09100 article EN ACS Nano 2023-12-27

The development of safe and high-energy metal anodes represents a crucial research direction. Here, the achievement highly reversible, dendrite-free transition with ultrahigh capacities by regulating aqueous electrolytes is reported. Using nickel (Ni) as model, theoretical experimental evidence demonstrating beneficial role chloride ions in inhibiting disrupting hydroxide passivation layer on Ni electrode provided. As result, an areal capacity 1000 mAh cm-2 (volumetric ≈6000 cm-3 ),...

10.1002/adma.202305368 article EN Advanced Materials 2023-07-17

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) present substantial potential in electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reactions; however, inferior accessibility of single-atom sites to limits the overall CO2RR performances. Herein, we propose improve between In and through construction a three-dimensional (3D) porous indium catalyst (In1/NC-3D). The NaCl template-mediated synthesis strategy generates unique 3D nanostructure In1/NC-3D. Multiple characterizations validate that In1/NC-3D exhibits increased exposure...

10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c04273 article EN Inorganic Chemistry 2024-02-13

A steady sulfur cathode is central to realizing stable room temperature sodium–sulfur (RT Na–S) batteries.

10.1039/c9nr01637f article EN Nanoscale 2019-01-01

The endothelial surface glycocalyx (ESG) is a carbohydrate-rich layer found on the vascular endothelium, serving critical functions in mechanotransduction of blood flow-induced forces. One most important protective ESG to mediate production nitric oxide (NO) response flow. However, detailed mechanism underlying ESG's NO has not been completely identified. Herein, using cultured rat brain microvascular cells (bEnd.3) as model system, we have implemented combined atomic force and fluorescence...

10.1152/ajpcell.00288.2015 article EN AJP Cell Physiology 2016-09-29

In this work, cobalt nanoparticles@N-doped carbon nanocomposites (Co@NC) with controllable Co contents have been prepared by pyrolysis of Zn/Co bimetal zeolitic imidazolate framework-9 (Zn/Co-ZIF-9). The magnetic nanoparticles encapsulated multilayered shells are uniformly distributed on the NC substrates. as-obtained Co@NC 45.8 wt % samples exhibit higher catalytic activity and stability for heterogeneous reduction nitrobenzene to anilines NaBH4 under gentle condition. reaction over...

10.1021/acs.iecr.9b06604 article EN Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2020-02-14

Indium single-atom catalysts display a large total current density (38.94 to 81.08 mA cm-2) over an extensive potential window (-0.91 -1.41 V vs. RHE) for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction formate with high selectivity (85.2% faradaic efficiency at -1.31 V).

10.1039/d1cc07079g article EN Chemical Communications 2022-01-01

Molecular simulations identify distinctive behaviors of nanoplastics at the cell membrane surface and reveal interfacial processes translocation, transformation perturbation governed by polymer type aging properties.

10.1039/d2en00800a article EN Environmental Science Nano 2022-11-21

Abstract Electrochemical reduction of CO 2 provides an ideal approach to convert the greenhouse gas into fuels under mild conditions. Copper electrodes are capable producing significant amounts hydrocarbons, but selectivity methane (CH 4 ) remains low. Here, we prepared functionalized Cu nanowire by coating polymers (polydopamine, PDA) and experimentally verified that CuNWs indeed shows 2.3 times higher CH compared with CuNWs. The PDA catalyst catalytically stable for in excess 14 hours. We...

10.1002/celc.201801132 article EN ChemElectroChem 2018-09-22
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